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Monday, 27 June 2016

Govt own commissioned research into grammar in the primary school - abandoned? If so, why?

What if the Dept for Education commissioned research on whether teaching formal grammar to primary school children produced better writing. They had a huge sample : 600 schools. But the results didn't come out showing what the govt wanted it to show. What would the govt do?